George and Ira Gershwin’s Beverly Hills Home Is No More
by Andre Soares
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Using as an example the recent demolition of George and Ira Gershwin’s old Beverly Hills home, a Harold Meyerson article in this week’s edition of the LA Weekly chastises the city of Beverly Hills for its lack of interest in the preservation of its cultural and architectural heritage.
A brief snippet:
"But Roxbury [Drive] was a songsters’ street above all. Jerome Kern had lived one block over on Whittier; Harry Warren, the greatest of the songwriters who wrote chiefly for pictures, lived down Sunset on the other side of the Beverly Hills Hotel; and Cole Porter’s house was on Rockingham in Brentwood. Roxbury, however, beat them all. Oscar Levant lived on the 900 block so he could drop in on the Gershwins at all hours, as he had in New York. And on the 1000 block, lyricist Ira Gershwin lived until his death in 1983, next door to singer Rosemary Clooney, who lived for 50 years in the house where Ira and his brother George had lived and worked in 1936 and 1937, during the final year of George’s life."
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